miss jinxed:Hippies are idiots who ruined the "green" "environmentally friendly" stuff for everyone. Imagine if it had been a Nixon republican spouting all the save the planet crap. There'd be wind farms on every corner.

"Just like the gentrification of a neighborhood where new, wealthy people displace people who have lived there longer," Ream writes, "the dharma is undergoing a process of gentrification in San Francisco today."

Wait, so... hang on, so like today's Buddhists are going to be priced out of Buddhism and have to find a less expensive religion? Can rich people do that?

MrBallou:I know modern American "Buddhists" who always stop in for Starbucks before going to class to learn to free themselves from material desires. I suspect the irony is lost on them.

I have a friend who posts articles about inequality and declares that the problem with the world is consumerism and the top 1% and literally the next day is showing the $4000 gaming rig he built from scratch.